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  1. Heinz Klaus Strick's histories - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Strick/

    1 May 2024: You can see the biographies indexed by postage stamps at THIS LINK.. Heinz Klaus Strick's Home page is at.

  2. British Mathematical Colloquium - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/BMC/

    3 May 2023: From 1994 onwards there were some Special Sessions which each concentrated on a particular area of mathematics. ... Minutes of the general and committee meetings are available for many of the colloquia.

  3. Chinese overview - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/Chinese_overview/

    7 Mar 2023: R Calinger, A contextual history of mathematics (New York, 1999). C Cullen, Astronomy and Mathematics in Ancient China (Cambridge, 1996). ... 12 (3) (1985), 219-228. D Liu, 400 years of the history of mathematics in China - an introduction to the major

  4. Tricuspoid - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Curves/Tricuspoid/

    1 May 2024: The length of the tangent to the tricuspoid, measured between the two points. ... P and. Q. Q. Q they are at right angles. The length of the curve is.

  5. Weil on history - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Weil_history/

    7 Mar 2023: Below we give four examples of extracts from André Weil's writings on the history of mathematics. ... 1976). 1. Early history of number theory. Our first extract is from the first chapter of Number theory.

  6. U of St Andrews History - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/U_of_St_Andrews_History/

    2 Jun 2023: Reforms in 1574 meant that specific duties were allocated to professors in each college and a master in St Mary's College was to act as Professor of Mathematics. ... He actively supported Gregory in his plans for the new Observatory and, when Gregory

  7. Fellow of the Royal Society - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Honours/FRS/

    10 Mar 2024: The list of fellows given below is only those scientists elected Fellows of the Royal Society whose biographies appear in the MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, together with some present day ... mathematicians. The list also gives their date of

  8. William Coppel (1930 - 2023) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Coppel/

    9 May 2024: All four sons graduated from the Australian National University: none showed any inclination towards mathematics. ... Stephen studied history and worked as a print curator at the National Gallery of Australia, and later for over 30 years at the British

  9. Most popular biographies – 2024 - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Miscellaneous/Popular/

    8 Jan 2024: Of our 3150 biographies, those below are the 200 which were consulted most often in the last three months. ... The popularity of female mathematician's biographies declined markedly as you can see at1].

  10. Gibson History 11 - John Playfair, Sir John Leslie - MacTutor History …

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Gibson_history_11/

    7 Mar 2023: Playfair in particular was widely read in the history of mathematics, was in spite of (perhaps it would be more appropriate to say "because of ") his great admiration for Newton, disappointed ... been "assumed by others, particularly by Ludlam in his